Friday, September 23, 2011

Monday, May 3, 2010

So, corp has just spent a while in the wormholes. Some things Ive learn the hard way about wormholes I thought id leave here for the readers:

1) for all the hype, they are a lot more quiet than you would think.
2) if you go into a wormhole, make sure you bookmark the exit. Especially if you think there might be people in the wormhole you would rather avoid.
3) If you park pos's in a wormhole, dont everyone leave the WH. Always have someone inside who can probe out the exit/entrance. I found way too many unfueled towers sitting around in WH-space with nobody there. Easy pickings.
4) Dont bother with WH's less than C3. They dont pay well at all.
5) Probably the most significant thing on this list is this - Dont bother with WH's unless you can salvage, AND, have time to complete the anomoly or signature area, AND loot / salvage the area too. You earn no isk for just the kills like with normal rats.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

So today I logged in before I left for work. I knew there was an extended DT today, and with at least one skill finishing this evening, I thought it best to switch skills around to avoid any lost training time. This much went fine.

I had also got a private message from a pilot who I believe is one of the FC's among the Caldari Militia. (SGX joined the State Protectorate militia - more news in another blog post). He sent the following:

*****2009.08.18 02:51[02:48:07] PILOT NAME > Cool. My corp made up of cowards and elitists that I know IRL, so I don't think they'd man up to snip of sensitive info segment.

Cool corpmate bro.*****

Now I dont know about what you, the reader, would think about this ... but I take this kind of seriously. I run a small corp and I try to take the very best care of all my pilots, providing them with free stuff for their use and not asking anything of them they arent prepared to give themselves.

How could I possibly ask this pilot to continue to fly with other pilots he considers to be cowards and elitist fools? That would certainly not be in his best interests.

Friday, July 24, 2009

I suppose its time for me to blog an eve post again. Actually its long overdue, but nonetheless I now have something to post about.

It seems it may finally be time for me to leave the alliance I joined barely 2 weeks into playing Eve. Its been an eventful few years and certainly a rollercoaster of highs and lows.

I could have done without the lows to be honest.

The situation in the alliance has fallen apart once again and the situation the alliance finds itself in is so far removed from the alliance I helped build at the start of my internet spaceships career that it is in a sense almost unrecognisable.

Starting as a lone industry-enjoying caldari combat pilot Ive watched a predominantly pvp-centric empire-war-making-and-taking alliance grow in numbers, shrink, win wars, get a bloody nose, hand out plenty more bloody noses to ID10T's who have tried to pop us, written chunks of eve-history, defeated the blood raiders (both the npc and pc presence) in the bleak lands, fought a back and forth war with Ushra'Kahn, survived a violent demagogue uprising and political schism (not to mention the banz0r-bat from CCP striking the old executor...), no less than three significant corp thefts, and finally moving to take up holders status in Providence.

I now lead a corporation and have a wonderful group of pilots I play with on a regular basis as Real Life allows. In fact, the unofficial motto of the corp is "Real Life First". We know its just a game and games are meant to be fun (or the good ones are at least).

So, somehow having inspired the loyalty of my corporation, and given the way things are going within the alliance... well its looking like we might 'take a break' and look for a new pasture to graze in for the time being.

Faction warfare perhaps?

I think a change is probably good for us.. though there is going to need to be a serious amount of diplomacy done to ensure various projects we have dont get derailed in the process. Unless I am mistaken though, I forsee things going well, if not perfectly fine in that regard. I hold no majice toward the people who have changed the way the alliance is.. its just not fulfilling where I and my copr members really need at the moment.

The decision is almost the same one that was mulled over about 6 months ago... that time we stayed but things change and sadly I dont think they changed for the better. They changed for the same. And thats just not good enough in the end.

So .. what does a small independant pvp capable corp with an internal industrial backbone do under the circumstances? FW? Wormhole exploration? I dont think anything is off the cards at this time.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Ok, first, apologies. Ive been swamped, and I mean totally rolled over, by the amount of work Ive had these last few months. Its killing me, really. Its kept me from many things - including blogging.

As for the components... Im building a new pc. My current one I play Eve on is nearly 10 years old and its being held together by force of will, spit and bailing wire... but mostly force of will. I dont know how much longer it can handle it. So before the inevitable.. Im buying an upgrade.

The upgrade was to be the uberest uber pc EVER. Sadly due to a combination of parts not available and the exchange rate going down the toilet, Im not going to be able to follow that blueprint. Ive had to downgrade what I wanted to do. Still, between some nifty parts and a knack for computing I suspect I wont be too far off what I was originally going to have.

Lets see.. its taken me a while but I now have an idea what Im going to be getting:

i think thats it.. and sorry its not really an ordered list... but we'll get there in the end.

* the alternative to those last three items is to get a second scythe kama bay 5 1/4" to take the other 3 bay slots. Would increase the positive pressure in the case and improve airflow - especially if I fold and get a second gtx295 in there. Whoo now thats some wicked eve-online fps rates!

I should also note that I cant go a liquid cooling solution here. I could go a halfassed one, but Im more incluned toward a really good high quality setup through koolance for example.. but thats going to be quite expensive (even if it means temperature and noise drops even further... very handy in the hot weather we get here).

So. I know Ive got a follower ( \o/ whoever you are!) but anyone who reads this post... got any suggestions?

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Well, it's been splashed all across the blogosphere already - at least that part of it related to EvE Online, but the Band of Brothers alliance (better known as BOB) appear to be no more.

Im not going to address the facts or rumours relating to the event itself - you can find those nearly anywhere else. I thought I'd address the likely fallout of this occurrence.

Now presuming that CCP does not re-instate the alliance (through thier incestuous developer relations if nothing else 'legal'),there will be a gaping hole left in both the political sphere of 0.0 space, and the removal of one of the largest and most significant military entities existing in eve - for at least 24 hours.

After 24 hours they can form a new alliance, and begin to regain soverignty in their territories - but under a new name. Someone has already claimed their old name - probably whoever was responsible for their demise. But perhaps not.

Until they regain lvl 3 soverignty in their claimed space, they are wide open to the old style of capital warfare and paying vastly increased fuel costs for all their towers. No jumpbridges, no cuyno jammers, no cyno towers, no capital construction... thats got to hurt! And whats more, all their outposts are vulnerable! There will no doube be a massive scramble for delve region space.. as well as querious and fountain.

Now, speculation is rife among the group I talk to about eve that it may transpire that the bobbits (those bob crony corps who pay them 'rent' to be left alone or who fight alongside them) may just turn on thier masters.

Ok, I have no concrete proof of this, but from what I know of these groups it isnt exactly unlikely.

Hmm.. ok so this turned out to be more a massively speculative post.. but its no doubt that there will be anarchy in the formerly bob held regions.

Not only that but larger alliances now may see the thunderstruck bob alliance as far easier pickings than the targets they are currently sizing up. Which could be good news for CVA and providence, as well as certain groups in fountain and Aridia. Goon have some strategic NAPS which may even allow them to make very efficient use of this anarchic state they claim to have brought about.

So, who is up for some raids into Delve region this week? I know I am!

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

What does this mean? Well, among other things I can be assured I've got some hefty skill training behind any fit-up on any ship I use, i will be able to say I've got max hp on shields/armour/hull, and I can target a lot of ships at once. Its basically a way of saying 'hey, you actually know what youre doing'.

So where to now?

Well, I like the look of that market.. im thinking of taking 3 months to max out my trade skillset and start a quest for market domination. Or, I could acquire the sills for black ops and the jump portal tech... potentially very very handy. Or, I could train myself into drednoughts and carriers.